The Hidden Princess At All-Boys Alpha Academy novel Chapter 738

“Just five minutes, then you can talk to your dad!” Ella calls cheerfully to Ariel as she slips back into the bedroom, pulling the door carefully shut behind her. But the moment she turns back to Cora, all kindness slips away from her face.

“I’m going to murder that stupid boxer.”

“Oh no,” Cora sighs, her shoulders slumping.

“Ella, can you please come over here?” Dominic sighs. “It’s very hard to hear you –“

Ella sighs and storms over to the bed, sitting down hard next to her sister. “You were right, Roger.”

“Usually my four favorite words,” Roger sighs, shaking his head. “Though not today.”

“Tell me,” Dominic orders, stern.

“I looked,” Ella says. “Her bond with Jackson is quite strong – bright and shining. But next to it, the one with Luca – it’s still there. Not broken, not disappeared. Just ragged as all hell and stretching out towards him, wherever he is in the world.”

Dominic groans, devastated by the news, and ducks his face into his hands.

“Oh, Luca’s in the city,” Cora murmurs innocently.

Ella glances at her with a frown but turns back to the tablet when Roger speaks.

“Is it not better, in some ways?” Roger asks, hesitant. “She’s not broken by this – she’s not ill like Dominic was. I’m not trying to downplay what she’s been through, I’m just saying –“

“No, I’m glad she’s not going through what I want through,” Dominic says, raising his head. “I just…I hate that that smug little bastard still has a claim on her. He’s going to keep doing this to her – reeling her in, making his demands, and hurting her when he doesn’t get what he wants. It’s despicable for a man to tell the woman he loves that she’s rejected, to shred the bond almost to the snapping point, and then to leave it intact.”

“And Ariel’s so sweet,” Ella murmurs, worried. “That if she has a chance to try again, to renew the bond – she’ll probably take it. The boy means a lot to her. She loves him, I’m sure of it, and she’s generous of heart enough to see his good attributes when she should worry about the bad.”